What can be booked - the five kinds
Appointments, time slots with places, whole days, periods (camps) and events, with their settings.
Under Bookings > What can be booked, add an offer: something visitors can book. Each offer has a name, an optional description, photo and price, and one of five kinds. Fwdia doesn't take payments: the price is shown to visitors, you can add payment instructions (for example a bank transfer, or pay on site), and payment is between you and your customer.
Appointment
A treatment or meeting with one client at a time: nails, a haircut, a massage, a consultation.
- Duration: how long it takes.
- Start every: 10, 15, 20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, or right after the previous one.
- Buffer before / after: time you need around it (cleaning, travel). Visitors don't see buffers.
- All appointments share one calendar per person, so a 90-minute and a 30-minute treatment never overlap.
- Staff (Business): book with a staff member, each with their own calendar. Visitors pick one or anyone available.
Free times follow your opening hours.
Time slots with places
Fixed slots with a number of places: a play area, a sauna, an escape room. Enter the slots per weekday (for example 10:00-12:00, 12:30-14:30) or let Fill in make them ("every 90 minutes from 10:00 to 18:00"). Set Places per slot and whether to show "3 places left".
Whole days
Day care, play days: places per day. Days per booking lets visitors pick several days at once. Bookable weekdays default to the days you are open.
Periods
Camps and courses: date ranges like "Week 1: 7-11 July", each with its own number of places. Visitors book the whole period, or, if you allow it, chosen days within a period (places then count per day).
Events
Workshops and classes on set dates and times, each with its places. Repeat adds a series in one go ("every Wednesday 18:00-20:00 from 1 March until 30 June").
Settings every offer has
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| People per booking | At least and at most, for example 1 to 4. |
| Count people as | One number, or Adults and children (slots, days, periods, events): see below. |
| Payment | How to pay, a payment link and an amount: see below. |
| Confirmation | Automatic (a free time is confirmed right away) or I confirm each booking (a request until you accept it). |
| Extras | Yes/no add-ons like "Hot lunch", with their own price and, if needed, their own limit. Slots, days, periods and events. |
| Questions | Extra questions after name and email: short or long text, a choice, yes/no, a number, a date, or Health or allergy (see Privacy and health information). |
| Own rules | Override the site's rules for this offer: notice, how far ahead, cancel deadline, and when booking opens (for example camp registration from 1 March 20:00). |
| Visitors can book this | Switch an offer off without deleting it. |
Adults and children
For a play area, a camp or a family workshop, set Count people as to Adults and children. Visitors then fill in two numbers, each with its own limits (for example 1 to 2 adults and 1 to 4 children).
Choose Who uses the places:
- Children: the places are for the children, for example a play area with room for 20 children. The adults come along but don't count.
- Adults: the adults are the limit, for example a play area where the parents' tables are full first.
- Adults and children together: everyone counts.
Adults and children together (at least / at most) limits the whole group of one booking, for example a party for 25 to 50 people. Leave it at 0 for no limit.
Bookings then show as "2 adults, 3 children" everywhere: in the inbox, the calendar, Today, the print list, the CSV export, your calendar feed and the emails.
Payment
Fwdia never handles the money: visitors pay you directly. Under Payment on an offer you can add:
- How to pay: for example your bank account and "mention the child's name".
- Payment link: a link to your own Mollie, Stripe, PayPal or Payconiq page. It must start with https://.
- Amount: shown only, for example "EUR 120".
Visitors see this on the confirmation screen, in the request and confirmation emails and on their booking page, until you mark the booking paid.
Keep requests open until paid works with I confirm each booking: requests of that offer never expire on their own. When the money is in, mark the booking paid and accept it.